I found post-U.S. Civil War newspaper articles about lynchings of blacks.

Many of them followed a theme of a homeowner coming home and finding his wife and child(ren) murdered, or a neighbor finding a whole family slaughtered. In this day and age, we would immediately suspect the spouse doing away with the family or a murder suicide. One of the newspapers would post a story a week, that they “received on good authority” of happening in another town or county.

Back then, the news stories went, the outraged neighbors would go to the nearest black man, or find an “uppity” one, or one passing through, and lynch him. The newspaper would put out the gory details, and usually claim that other blacks in the area were so outraged that they participated in the lynching. “Justice” being done, the neighborhood would settle back down. No other investigation, no trials held. At times there was news that the widower married quickly afterwards (as evidenced in later newspaper issues). I wondered how quickly the union was blessed with a new baby—-maybe even sooner than nine months. (I discovered that babies being born rarely made the news back then.)

After discovering and reading such stories, I would have to walk away from the microfilm reader, feeling terribly sick to my stomach.

This one was floating around FB a while back. Totally floored me when I read the headline. Sheds a serious light on the attitude toward domestic violence in the 1950’s! I am very grateful to state that this point of view is no longer tolerated!

“The question, posed by New Yorker Herman Martin who was paid $10 for asking about it, is answered the same way by four men, who all agreed that a sound spanking was an appropriate form of discipline.

Brooklyn barber Frank Desidero goes one step further, saying he finds a hairbrush is a useful took to use against a wife who has stepped out of line.” Old newspaper articles about punishing your wife

I don’t think any newspaper headline has ever aged as badly as this article from The Independent about Osama bin Laden. The piece raises up the man as a near-mythological warrior for freedom against Soviet oppression in Afghanistan.

“What I lived in two years in Afghanistan, I could not have lived in a hundred years elsewhere”, Bin Laden is quoted as saying, as he poses like some sort of darker shaded Lawrence of Arabia, smiling bravely.

The newspaper goes on to describe how Osama makes good use of his brave ‘mujahedeen’ warriors, having them create building projects in Sudan with the war in Afghanistan nearing an end. It’s 1993 and no one knows the man is about to become a villain of epic proportions in the eyes of the West in just eight short years…

Some newspaper headlines age badly. Some worse than others. But this one, by far, aged worst of all. Osama bin Laden the hero of Afghanistan, fighting the Russians, helping the Americans. Oh how wonderful! Could not possibly backfire, ever, could it?

These pictures are of headlines from the 250 years celebration book of the Leeuwarder Courant (the oldest regional newspaper in the Netherlands).

Translations of some of the headlines are below, including some background information. What is most striking is that unnerving articles sometimes go hand in hand with very good news.

1756

• Fear for the end of the World

Apparently an astronomer miscalculated a possible impact of a meteorite into earth. Luckily his calculations were off.

• Naval battle sounds Seven Years' War
• Austria loses bloody battle
• Madam on donkey through Paris

1793

• Louis XVI dies under the guillotine
• French invade the republic
• Marat murdered in bathtub

1871

• French commune does not quit
• Confusion in Mexico
• Chicago destroyed

1888

• Jack the Ripper strikes again
• Weapon possession leads to accidents
• Electoral right takes getting used to
• Catholics get own chamber faction

This was result of a long process of emancipation of a Catholic minority in a largely protestant country.

1900

• Religious fanatic pushes woman into fire
• First Zeppelin flies
• Rat catchers employed, plague in Glasgow

Apparently Glasgow was up to 1950’s the most disease ridden city in the whole of Western Europe. The plague was present up until the 20th century and it was the last city were TB epidemics occured.

1906

• Earthquake disaster in San Francisco
• Dreyfus aquitted
• Dreadnought inspires arms race

1912

• Unsinkable Titanic hits iceberg
• Suffragettes stamping in London
• Wife of controversial pastor drowns
• China becomes republic

1914

• The guns thunder for days
• Archduke assassinated in Sarajevo
• Leeuwarden in turmoil over mobilization

Although the Netherlands was neutral in WW1, contrary to what many people think, the Dutch did mobilize their army in fear of a possible German invasion.

• Belgians massively flee for the border

Over one million Belgian refugees were harboured in the Netherlands during WW1.

• First cremation in Netherlands is illegal

A lot of people don’t know this, but initially burial of the deceased was the only legal option.

1915

• On the field of death
• U-boot torpedoes Lusitania

This event caused the U.S. to participate in WW1.

• Rats banter in the trenches.

Apparently there was a massive infestation of rats in the trenches of WW1.

• Mustard gas used as a weapon.

1917

• Hungry mob loots magazines

The U-boot menace, mobilized men and lots of Belgian refugees caused grain prices to soar leading to bread riots.

• Revolution erupts in Russia
• Electricity brings light into darkness
• Mata Hari executed

A lot of people don’t know this, but she was born in the town where this newspaper is printed.

1929

• Stock Market crash leads to chaos in New York
• Diamonds found in Birds
• Quadruple murder in Grootegast

1930

• Tutankhamun curse strikes again
• Troelstra buried
• Criminals on the ballot list

Al Capone had political connections.

• Dry polder gives last catch of fish
• Gandhi leads Indians in Salt March

1932

• Baby of flyer Lindbergh kidnapped
• Unemployment increases in Europe
• Ladies smoke pipe

One of the unfortunate consequences of women emancipation was also that women started smoking.

• Last sand closes off Zuiderzee

1933

• Germans hang on Hitler’s lipps
• Roosevelt announces new deal
• Reichstag on fire
• Mutiny on the Seven Provinces

The Seven Provinces was a Dutch navy vessel.

1935

• Large damage in China through floodings
• Italian army invades Abyssinia

This war resulted in the first genocide on foreign territory by the Axis powers.

1937

• Hindenburg crashes burning
• Division plan for Palestina
• Ocean flyer missing over sea

1938

• Austria aligned within German empire
• Spain fighters lose citizenship
• Jews victim of Kristallnacht
• European peace expensive for Czechs
• China destroys dikes of Yellow river

1939

• Mobilization carries men from home
• Hitler escapes assassination attempt
• Germany invades Poland

1941

• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
• Germany invades Soviet Union
• Rudolf Hess flies to England
• February strike puts down businesses
• Waffen-SS seeks pure Aryan volunteers for the battle at the front

1945

• Canadians liberate Leeuwarden
• Trial to begin against Nazi leaders
• First atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima
• Dönitz continues the fight after death Hitler
• German children fight at the front

1950

• North Korea crosses 38th parallel
• Abe defeats Ajax is football smash hit match
• First Frisian TV broadcast
• Canned negroe causes riot

1974

• Richard Nixon falls in Watergate scandal
• Orange loses World cup with 2–1
• Carnation Revolution through army in Portugal
• Aage M. escapes from prison

1977

• Netherlands in suspense over train hijacking
• Fear for terror after death RAF members
• Tens of thousands of fans at funeral Elvis

1983

• Junta declares missing dead
• Opposition leader Philippines dead

1984

• Thousands dead in poison disaster Bhopal

1986

• Nuclear fusion in power plant Chernobyl
• Space Shuttle explodes

1989

• Night of Berlin already historical
• Environmental disaster Alaska biggest ever
• Fatwa on Rushdie
• Chinese army clears Tiananmen Square

1990

• Bullfrogs take to Franeker

Apparently there was a bullfrogs infestation in 1990.

• Amels and Trump see dreams go up in smoke

Donald Trump put up an order for the construction of luxury yacht at a Frisian luxury yacht shipyard. Allegedly the order was worth 400 million U.S. dollars. Of course Trump never had that much money. It was large scale fraud. The bigges scam ever in the history of the province. The Frisian company nearly went bankrupt. It was one of Trump’s many scams. American and Scottish businessmen weren’t the only ones to suffer at his hands.

• Mandela released from prison after 27 years
• Great Britain no longer an island

1991

• Rioters killed in East Timor
• Pinatubo vulcano erupts
• Americans pleased at start Gulf war

1992

• Riots because of Rodney King case
• F16 fires missiles at Vlieland tower
• Sorry that flat no longer exists
• Red cross demands inspection camps

1993

• Occupation Russian white house ends
• Waco cult dies in hail of fire
• British boys (11) murder todler

1994

• Rwanda smells of rotting flesh
• O. J. Simpson acused of murder
• Deaths in peasant riots in Mexico

2001

• It rained glass, debris and burning material
• Foot-and-mouth disease also in Ee
• Political stir about Máxima’s father
• Man from Sneek made Kournikova virus

‘We lived like we were Wall Street’

“Before it was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Greenwood was one of the most affluent black communities in the country. It was known as “Black Wall Street” because of its concentrated wealth.”

“Jim Crow kept that wealth in the community. “Not only did black Americans want to contribute to the success of their own shops,” the cultural center explains, “but there were also racial segregation laws that prevented them from shopping anywhere other than Greenwood.”

“The rampage, which lasted 48 hours, left more than 10,000 black residents of Greenwood homeless and as many as 300 black people dead.

Witnesses to the massacre recalled seeing white mobs looting homes of black people, pulling out finely carved furniture, pianos, mink and leopard coats, before setting the houses on fire. There were reports that hundreds of bodies were thrown into the Arkansas River or buried in mass graves.”

The Bombing of Tulsa HistoricWings.com

“Whatever actually happened that day, on May 30, 1921, the news article that followed the next day was as sensational as it was fabricated.”

“Both sides were well-armed. However, the KKK had one thing that the African-Americans did not — air power. The first aerial bombing in American history was in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It pitted Americans against Americans and it was a battle along racial lines.”

“As the first rays of sunlight touched the city, a siren blared three times as the signal to begin the attack.”

“Each pilot took an “observer” on board and, as some reports later claimed, loaded up their planes with balls of fabric soaked in turpentine. Matches were carried to light the incendiary balls on fire before dropping. They took off at 6:00 am, returning and refueling to fly additional missions later in the morning and in the early afternoon.

They employed the turpentine-soaked balls as makeshift “bombs”, or more properly “fire bombs”. With these, they hoped to start fires in the center of the African-American business district.”

In summary 3,200 KKK members, using “fake news” created a situation where Americans conducted aerial firebombing of other Americans.

The Oklahoma National Guard took casualties in quelling the violence.

This is the reason for the Second Amendment, “high capacity magazines”, and AR-15's.

This neighborhood was outnumbered by a factor of 100 to 1.

Should these residents have been left to the mercy of the mob?

I say no. I say the residents of Greenwood had every right to fight back with “every other terrible implement of the soldier”.

The residents of Greenwood were armed, thanks to the NRA fighting Jim Crow gun laws.

Killed for loving social media

Look closely at this girl. She is full of life, isn't she?

Athira…that was her name…a Hindu..

She was in love with Shanawas, a Muslim from Kerala. Everyday, Athira posted images on Instagram…stories of happiness, joy, anticipation, anxiety..Athira shared her life with us on social media.

But her lover resented it. For him, social media was haram under the Islamic law. Shanawas cared more for his religion than Athira. He could go to any extent to prove himself a devout Muklim.

And that is what he did…Shanawas killed his Hindu lover because for him, Islam was more important than love!

Weep…

This one lasted just one night ! In the 1948 presidential election the famous Gallup institute announced the victory of Governor Dewey. The Chicago Daily TRibune anxious to have a scoop announced this widely expected result…only to rectify it in less than a day as Truman had actually won the election !

Well, apparently that makes me a genius…

But seriously, is there a more depressing headline than ‘if you have hope, it’s probably because you’re stupid’?

It’s probably not true…oh, wait…

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The fire was believed started by a starving slave woman who was chained to the stove and tried to commit suicide by transferring the fire from the stove to the house.

The Real Madame Lalaurie & Other Legends From American Horror Story: Coven - Deep South Magazine

The condition of these slaves has been embellished and exaggerated through storytelling over the years, but it’s important to note that newspaper accounts following the incident contain eyewitness accounts of their exact condition. The Courier described it as an “appalling sight … “their bodies covered with scars and loaded with chains.”

The Bee reported that the rescuers found “seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated … suspended by the neck with their limbs stretched and torn from one extremity to the other.” The editors of both papers had gone to the Cabildo, where the slaves were brought, to see for themselves, and the Courier also described a man with a hole in his head filled with worms.

These horrific accounts, along with the duration of Madame’s alleged abuse, help to explain why neighbors and citizens were upset enough to ransack her house and destroy everything they could.

You are talking violence and depravity, mistreatment and maltreatment of slaves so severe that slave-trading, slave-owning, and slavery-supporting whites went mad with anger and ransacked her house taking everything they could and destroying everything else in sight. Just how bad was it? The judge who was present recommended that the newspaper not publish a complete description of the depravity within as it would be unfit to read. The reporter after looking within agreed and the quotes we see are all that remains of the permanent record because of that decision. Thus the legends and probable exaggerations of far worse.

Only 2 countries( Pakistan & Afghanistan) has still active cases of Polio in world....many people dnt take polio vaccine there bcoz they think polio vaccine is Haraam & it will make their children Impotent...

Hail sickularism and I think they used to hide under the name of sickularism.

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This is a highly subjective question, with answers that will vary from individual to individual.

To be sure, some news has been labeled “angertainment”.

One question you may want to ask yourself is whether you really need to be up to date on daily news stories, all the way down to the third-lowest tier of importance, that may tend to be negative. Many people may find that they simply don’t.

Reading the financial news is kind of like applying a coarse-grained filter onto the overall news, albeit imperfectly.

If there is a legitimately big news story, it will tend to make its way to the financial news.

Here’s another failed future prediction in the newspaper media which might be the best contender for place one in this list(icle).

I just wonder if the journalist who wrote this piece of perfectly failed and horribly aged article even remembered what he wrote when he saw what happened in January 30th 1933.

Yeah, but more like in a local newspaper - I wrote around 10 articles on topics like Science Fiction, Time Travel and Cinema, out of which two got published - one was about Cinema-Old Bollywood and the other being Time Travel hoaxes, unfortunately I neither have the newsarticle of the later one, nor a pdf copy(which i usually have for drafts and backups)… however i do have a pictures of solf copy of my article on the former topic- revisiting old cinema. I had written about one of my fav movies -Guide

The news publication is a indie like outlet catering relatively a smaller audience of my city only so i really didnt find the hard copy of the article here which dates back to august,2019.

(I'm hiding my surname and name of the outlet partially, as to not cause any privacy issue)

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Who knows, but newspapers used to regularly report when people went to the funny farm. Here’s one from a local newspaper near me:

One of the most well-known example of a news article not aging well.

The Chicago Daily Tribune predicted that Thomas E. Dewey would win the 1948 Presidential election over Harry S. Truman. And when they printed that, Truman was able to hold up that newspaper after winning the election and take advantage of a great photo opportunity.

Yes, something which whole nation won't think …

Increasingly, articles like this WashPo piece from today’s headlines have me scratching my head. It is beyond hard to imagine this behavior on any rational level:

The danger in wrapping food in newspapers (both old and new) lies in the ink used in these newspapers. This ink can trickle into food wrapped in them, especially hot food. The ink in itself consists of several pathogenic micro-organisms, which are harmful, in effect, posing an inherent danger to human health when the food wrapped in them is consumed. The danger in the ink also lies in the solvent used to dissolve the ink on the newspaper. This solvent can possibly be oncogenic.

Besides, newspapers are usually made of recycled paper that may be adulterated with injurious chemicals like di-n-butyl phthalate, which can give rise to acute malignance, as well as digestive problems.

What did you feel while reading an article?.

The tone of the text appears to be neutral and straightforward. The language used is formal and direct, without any specific emotional or persuasive elements. However, the text is quite concise, lacking in depth or complexity. It could benefit from more descriptive language or explanations to engage the reader and make the topic more interesting.

Errors Corrected/Improvements Made:

1. Corrected the capitalization of the first letter in the sentence.

2. Replaced the question mark with a period since it is not a direct question.

3. Added a space after the period for proper formatting.

4. Replaced "In English" with "Written in English" for clarity.

5. Removed the phrase "Default" as it does not contribute to the meaning of the text.

Analysis of Changes:

* The original text required a few minor corrections and improvements.

* The capitalization of the first letter in the sentence was corrected to align with standard grammar rules.

* The question mark was replaced with a period since the sentence is not a direct question.

* The phrase "In English" was replaced with "Written in English" to provide clearer information about the language of the article.

* The unnecessary word "Default" was removed as it added no value to the text.

The original text was concise and straightforward, but it lacked depth and engaging factors. The revised version maintains the neutral and informative tone while addressing the minor issues present in the original.

If they were written in a way that bored you, would you bother to buy them? That accounts for a decent percentage of it. Another, perhaps larger, share of the aggression we feel these days is not the fault of the newspapers, but of more emotive and addictive media like television and social media. To be more clear, sometimes it’s the fault of the medium, as with FOXNews or, to a lessor extent, MSNBC, but more often it’s more on the politicians who are using the media to create “political echo chambers” which ensnare the audience, which started listening out of ‘confirmation bias’ (seeking programming which confirmed their pre-existing biases).

But, confirmation bias has a dark underbelly: over time, the listener/viewer loses any impulse to expose him/herself to conflicting information. Also, we start to have a lessening opinion of people who differ from us in their thinking. It begins with something like, “Well, they’re a bit misguided.”, but, then devolves, over a series of steps, to the point where we can become fully capable of literally hating both people we’ve never even met, or worse yet, feel that same way about people we once cared about — even loved. It’s this dynamic that is most responsible for the aggressiveness of which you question the genesis.

Well it comes with numerous benefits and the discerning people will feel the change.

Theres this common myth that papers are all about politics and have become partisan blah blah but take my word……if you are a careful reader over a period of time you shall be able to spot the trends. One can always start with the sports page or read about environmental issues if you absolutely loath the netas!

So much to know about the events happening around the globe, burning issues, prickly issues getting resolved and of course assorted specials about heritage sites being upgraded, new forms of telling history, amazing stories of grit etc etc are all covered in the newspapers. Being on a staple diet of the newspapers keeps our grey cells ticking and give us a holistic picture of events. If we are objective in ur analysis without forming opinions at the drop of a hat it will be beneficial in the long run.